Probability is determined both by the nature of our observations and by our conception of rationality.

The database is the most important piece of software in the enterprise, and the most important piece of software in the enterprise is the database. The database is the foundation of all applications. The database is the heart of the application, and the application is the heart of the business.

最好的领导者是那些倾听多于发言并以诚信行事的人。

麦田低语着过去的故事，但风将它们吹散。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The true test of a musician is not how they play in concert, but how they behave in rehearsal.